UAH Hockey 2012-13: Still breathing

[LSSULaker889294]

Re: UAH Hockey 2012-13: Still breathing

Sounds like the conference talks are going pretty good for UAH. Great news!

[aparch]

Sounds like the conference talks are going pretty good for UAH. Great news!

I think that is where their frustration lies. They've had good talks with conferences. They've been told they'd be a good fit and that they would bring excitement and potential to these leagues...

And yet, here they are, still "homeless."

[gfmorris]

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The frustrating thing is that UAH simply cannot manage to wait until all dance partners have been selected much longer. The lack of a conference with the accompanying conference schedule and stability continues to weaken the state of D1 hockey in Huntsville.

The commitment to keep the program going is there from the administration, but the situation is not tenable.

GFM <-- will stop there before saying something stupid.

[gfmorris]

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Funny how it went all [crickets chirping] after those Mike Anderson zingers...

If you're referring to anything Mike said to me, well, know that Mike and I spent a season together on the road and like to fire barbs for our own amusement.

GFM

[ChargerPowerPlay]

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I haven't seen much about this weekends series against Northeastern (currently 6th in Hockey East). Northeastern is having a rough year but UAH is having a much rougher year. Northeastern only has 2 wins this season (2-4-1) but one of those was a 3-1 victory over the current USCHO #1 ranked Boston College Eagles (#3 on Krach). UAH has, as we know, come up short against all opponents excepting the toying around with the Crimson Tide club team. [As an aside, all these road series losses (SCSU, StL, Bentley(1), AIC(1)), make that home series against 'Sota State seem like a very long time ago. Plus, in the home series against the Mavs the Chargers showed potential which hasn't been replicated consistently.]

ESPN Streak For the Cash picks for this series...
[For Friday]
NCAA D1 Hockey (Mens) (UAH at Northeastern) :What will be the match result?
Northeastern wins by 4 goals or more
Any Other Result

[For the Series]
NCAA D1 Hockey (Mens) (UAH at Northeastern) :Which will have a higher total?
Northeastern winning margin on Friday
Northeastern winning margin on Saturday or tie

The Friday pick looks tricky. UAH is setting a pattern of playing worse on Fridays rather that Saturdays. So the Friday game will probably result in the more lopsided loss (going with Northeastern winning margin on Friday for the second pick). Notwithstanding the win against BC, Northeastern has the following (Using Krach rankings): wins against #4 and #19, draw against #3 and losses to #4, #3, #19, #19). For UAH it looks like (again with Krach): draw against #35, losses to #35, #11, #11, #48, #43, #8, #8)...I'll go Northeastern wins by 4 goals or more for Friday but then UAH tightens it up for Saturday. Apparently the Chargers give up an average of ~4.8 goals per game.

[UAHStatman]

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I haven't seen much about this weekends series against Northeastern (currently 6th in Hockey East). Northeastern is having a rough year but UAH is having a much rougher year. Northeastern only has 2 wins this season (2-4-1) but one of those was a 3-1 victory over the current USCHO #1 ranked Boston College Eagles (#3 on Krach). UAH has, as we know, come up short against all opponents excepting the toying around with the Crimson Tide club team. [As an aside, all these road series losses (SCSU, StL, Bentley(1), AIC(1)), make that home series against 'Sota State seem like a very long time ago. Plus, in the home series against the Mavs the Chargers showed potential which hasn't been replicated consistently.]

ESPN Streak For the Cash picks for this series...
[For Friday]
NCAA D1 Hockey (Mens) (UAH at Northeastern) :What will be the match result?
Northeastern wins by 4 goals or more
Any Other Result

[For the Series]
NCAA D1 Hockey (Mens) (UAH at Northeastern) :Which will have a higher total?
Northeastern winning margin on Friday
Northeastern winning margin on Saturday or tie

The Friday pick looks tricky. UAH is setting a pattern of playing worse on Fridays rather that Saturdays. So the Friday game will probably result in the more lopsided loss (going with Northeastern winning margin on Friday for the second pick). Notwithstanding the win against BC, Northeastern has the following (Using Krach rankings): wins against #4 and #19, draw against #3 and losses to #4, #3, #19, #19). For UAH it looks like (again with Krach): draw against #35, losses to #35, #11, #11, #48, #43, #8, #8)...I'll go Northeastern wins by 4 goals or more for Friday but then UAH tightens it up for Saturday. Apparently the Chargers give up an average of ~4.8 goals per game.

No way the Chargers lose tonight! Guaranteed!

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It's a Saturday-Sunday series.

[ChargerPowerPlay]

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No way the Chargers lose tonight! Guaranteed!

It's a Saturday-Sunday series.

Indeed it is! I haven't been paying enough attention...They set me up with all those Fr/Sa series and then spring this on me.

[northeastern]

We have not been playing well.. just beat us this wknd & put us out of our misery. Hope your team enjoys its wknd in Boston.

[ChargerPowerPlay]

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With all this discussion of traveling to UAH for nWCHA or AHA teams, I have been wondering how UAH gets to all these away series. Do they fly or ride the bus normally? For instance, to SCSU, StL and Bentley/AIC how did they travel to those locales?

cpp

[gfmorris]

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With all this discussion of traveling to UAH for nWCHA or AHA teams, I have been wondering how UAH gets to all these away series. Do they fly or ride the bus normally? For instance, to SCSU, StL and Bentley/AIC how did they travel to those locales?

cpp

They've flown everywhere save St. Lawrence, which was a 22-hour bus trip. It was more expensive to fly to Canton than to drive, even though that's on the far outside of what we typically bus. Usually anything <=18 gets a bus.

Typically we bus to the old CCHA schools and the western half of AHA and fly everywhere else. In the nWCHA, we'd fly to both Alaska schools and both Minnesota schools (although Mankato may be a bus trip) and would bus to the UP, BG, and Ferris.

GFM

[hockeyplayer1015]

They've flown everywhere save St. Lawrence, which was a 22-hour bus trip. It was more expensive to fly to Canton than to drive, even though that's on the far outside of what we typically bus. Usually anything <=18 gets a bus.

Typically we bus to the old CCHA schools and the western half of AHA and fly everywhere else. In the nWCHA, we'd fly to both Alaska schools and both Minnesota schools (although Mankato may be a bus trip) and would bus to the UP, BG, and Ferris.

GFM

Yeesh. Ya, it is a major PITA to get to Canton. Probably have to fly into Syracuse, NY, then it is still a 2+ hour bus ride to Canton.

I know I mentioned it over on our thread, but I hope SLU reciprocates next year. We usually do for non conference games, but who knows. If they do and I'm not working on the tugboat, I will definitely make a point of coming up to Huntsville from Tampa. Ironically, the boat I'm on goes up to Decatur regularly.

[gfmorris]

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For completeness: based on past experiences, we'll bus to Lake State and UNO, Wisco and Penn State, Minny for the Mariucci, and fly to Duluth.

GFM

[Split-N]

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Just got through watching the vidstream of the Northeastern-UAH game. Only one comment: your guys didn't match up with our guys in terms of hockey pedigree, experience, size, and almost any other metric you want to throw out there. But your guys also didn't quit and that says a lot about a team. Good luck the rest of the way.

I don't know if NU does a return visit next year but if it does, I'll be checking airfares to Huntsville.

[gfmorris]

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Gruehl looked pretty good, and he's got a .944 and 1.82 in 99 minutes played. I think he's going to get another start against Lake State unless Kleinendorst takes Groh as his caddy, which would make sense given the rotation.

GFM

[UAHStatman]

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Gruehl looked pretty good, and he's got a .944 and 1.82 in 99 minutes played. I think he's going to get another start against Lake State unless Kleinendorst takes Groh as his caddy, which would make sense given the rotation.

GFM

So from here on out Griggs will go one game and than alternating between Gruehl or Groh? Groh hasn't started yet, so this would be different.